1. 10 Wednesday, October 21, 2015 RGG-E02-S2
News
A BILL which would mean more
people in and around Crawley
could benefit from end-of-life
care at St Catherine’s Hospice
has been welcomed by the
Southgate charity ahead of a
second reading in the House of
Lords.
The Access to Palliative Care
Bill is aimed at making sure
everyone has access to care at
the end of their life rather than
it being provided when someone
is referred.
It also seeks to improve
education training and research
into end-of-life care.
The UK ranks first out of 80
countries for providing the best
end-of-life care but it is also
publicly acknowledged that
hospice care is still not
accessible for all.
Capacity
Last year St Catherine’s,
currently based in Malthouse
Road, Southgate, cared for more
than 2,000 people including 573
referrals from Crawley.
And with the charity looking
to build a huge new base in
Pease Pottage, the charity will
have added capacity to treat
more people.
Dr Patricia Brayden, medical
director at St Catherine’s, said:
“We welcome this bill as it will
support us in reaching our
objective of helping more local
people affected by death and
dying in our area.
“St Catherine’s is committed
to making sure everyone in our
local community has access to
the very best care at the end of
their lives.”
The second reading in the
House of Lords will take place on
Friday.
It will then go through a
committee stage and a report
stage before there is a third
reading in the Lords.
After that the same process
will occur in the House of
Commons before amendments
could be made ahead of royal
assent being given, thus making
it law.
SUPERMARKET giant Sains-
bury’s has submitted plans to cre-
ate a new click and collect point at
one of its Crawley stores so busy
customers can arrive and imme-
diately pick up all of their shop-
ping.
Sainsbury’s wants to install a
covered collection area in the car
park of its West Green store, off
Crawley Avenue, as an addition to
its home delivery service.
If approved shoppers will be
able to order items online and
select a pick-up time to go to the
car park and collect them.
This would be the first click and
collect point at a Sainsbury’s in
Crawley, with it already available
for shoppers in Horsham, East
Grinstead and Haywards Heath.
A report included as part of the
application states: “The click-and-
collect facility will enable two cus-
tomer vehicles to park and one
delivery van to park and unload,
and allow customers to collect
goods in all weathers.
“This service enhances custom-
er convenience as it is aimed at
customers who lead busy life-
styles and cannot guarantee they
will be at home to take receipt of
the normal delivery service
provided by the store.”
The covered area would take up
ten parking spaces.
Sainsbury’s submitted the pro-
posal on Monday (October 12) and
Crawley Borough Council’s plan-
ning officers are due to decide
whether it can go ahead by
December 7.
Tesco already offers a click-and-
collect service at its stores in
Three Bridges and Hookwood, as
does Asda at its town centre
supermarket.
I 1: Had a beer at 6am
IT’S always nighttime somewhere
in the world and everyone knows
there is an unwritten by-law at
airports that you have to head
straight for the Wetherspoons
once you’ve ditched your bag.
It doesn’t matter what time of
day it is, how early you had to get
up or whether you are already
nursing a hangover – you have to
order a pint of beer or glass of
wine.
Just stay off the sambucas and
tequilas until you reach your
destination.
I 2: Worn seven layers of
clothing
THAT scene in Cool Runnings
when Sanka arrives at Calgary’s
airport and puts on every layer of
clothing he owns is played out at
Gatwick on a daily basis.
This is because your arrival at
the bag drop desk is shortly
followed by the revelation that
your efforts in that earlier game of
“guess the weight of the suitcase
by just picking it up” were poor.
It turns out that your bag is 4kg
overweight so you set about
removing your heaviest items of
clothing and putting them on,
then tread the line of
consciousness as you risk
overheating during the flight.
I 3: Thought there was a
terrorist attack
IT doesn’t matter how often you
go to the airport – whenever you
turn around to see a police officer
carrying an assault rifle, you
panic.
You get that split second thrill
of fear and excitement that
something serious is going down.
That is quickly replaced by that
strange guilt you get when a
police officer is near you –
intensified by the sight of their
finger hovering near the trigger –
until you remember you haven’t
done anything wrong.
I 4: Returned with something
you didn’t want
YOU might go away on holiday
with a pocketful of dreams, but
you come back with a pocketful
of soon-to-be-useless shrapnel.
Not wanting to bring it home
you spend the hours waiting for
your flight home on the most
pointless shopping expedition of
the year.
You hunt the airport for
something you don’t want which
is priced at exactly the amount of
money you have left in
Venezuelan bolívar.
The result is the purchase of a
T-shirt with the face of former
president Hugo Chávez on it
which someone in your family is
now getting for Christmas.
I 5. Pretended to be
superhuman
IF you stand still on the
travelators which take you to the
departure gates then you have no
joy left in your soul.
They provide the perfect
opportunity to look to your left
and right and scoff at the mere
mortals walking at what is, by
comparison, a snail’s pace as you
effortlessly glide past at
superhuman speeds.
Of course while messing
around we have all almost fallen
over at the end of one as we
struggle to adapt to a non-
moving floor beneath our feet
again.
I 6: Considered making a
bomb joke
ONLY an idiot makes a remark
about having a weapon in their
bag while going through security
at Gatwick – but we’ve all
thought about it.
Mr I’ve Been Working Since
3am looks at you with a
humourless expression and asks
if you have anything sharp in your
bag. His face creases in
confusion as you eventually reply,
displaying blood on the tip of
your tongue, caused by you
having to bite it to prevent you
saying something about the
machete which isn’t really in your
bag.
I 7: Considered making a
break for it on the taxiway
HUMANS need order and
direction to prevent chaos.
So when you leave behind the
straight walkways and illuminated
signs of the airport terminal for
the stark landscape of the
taxiway, your urge to do
something naughty kicks in.
That short walk across the
concrete to the stairs of the plane
is spent wondering what would
happen if you just ran for it.
How far could you get? Could
you get into forbidden areas and
hide?
Could you steal a plane? And
then your arrival at the bottom of
the stairs snaps you out of your
Grand Theft Auto-influenced
reverie.
I 8: Panicked when your
suitcase is searched
ALL is going well as you make
your way through security until
your bag veers off into the
“suspicious” lane and you know
they are going to go through your
bag in front of everyone.
For women this will inevitably
mean they fumble around with
your laciest pair of underwear
which found their way into your
carry-on in your quest to pack as
many clothes as possible.
If you’re a man, you’ll probably
be loudly questioned on what the
strange looking electrical device
is and you will have to explain
that it’s your nasal hair trimmer.
“It grows really quickly.”
I 9: Browsed for sunglasses
then seen the price
HOLIDAY essentials include
travel insurance, a good book
and a pair of sunglasses, so you
decide to splash out on a decent
pair of shades.
But after looking at the price
tag on the first Ray-Bans you
inspect at Sunglass Hut you
know you’re in way above your
head.
Not wanting to appear a
pauper in the piazza, you keep up
the charade of pretending to
consider another five pairs before
walking off and deciding you still
like the pair you bought off a
dodgy bloke on a beach in
Mallorca three years ago.
I 10: Arrived early just to try a
restaurant
PROVIDING that you actually
listen to what you’re told at
security and don’t try to take a
two-litre bottle of Coke through
security, the whole pre-flight
process is pretty quick these
days.
With that in mind, your family
wonder why you insist on getting
to Gatwick three hours before
your flight is due to leave.
You insist it’s because “you
never know what’s going to
happen”.
The fact you then have time to
sample the menus at Jamie’s
Italian, Giraffe and Wagamama is
entirely unrelated.
Store’s click and collect collection plan
New move
to improve
access to
end of life
care wins
approval
NOTHING quite beats the thrill of arriving at an
airport ready to go on holiday. As flights are so
cheap these days and Gatwick is on Crawley’s
doorstep, the chances are you get to do this
fairly regularly.
With this in mind, chief reporter Dave Comeau
has come up with a list of ten things we’ve all
probably done at Gatwick Airport at some point.
10 things we have
all done at Gatwick
YO, CHECK THIS OUT: Arriving early for your flight allows you to
sample restaurants like Yo Sushi
SERIOUS HARDWARE: The
sight of police with rifles at
Gatwick makes you think you're
in the grip of a terrorist attack